“Following a grassroots, online protest by volunteers with Women for Measure 80, advertising company Clear Channel Outdoor has agreed to take down a series of shameful, misleading and fear-mongering anti-marijuana billboards around Portland.”
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“The website listed on the to-be-removed billboards links to Protect Our Society, a group with ties to Save our Society From Drugs and the Drug Free America Foundation. Both of these organizations were founded by Florida ultra-conservatives Mel and Betty Sembler after their first non-profit, Straight Inc., was accused of running what amounted to “torture” centers.

According to a statement issued by Clear Channel Outdoor’s vice president of public affairs Dan Dhruva, ‘The ads protesting marijuana are being removed because our policy is transparency of advertising campaigns and the advertisers who are sponsoring them. These ads include a misleading website that we believe needed to honestly represent the advertiser so the ads are being removed.'”

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